A small collection of timeless aphorisms

From Chapter XIII, Not at Home:

“While there’s life there’s hope!”

“Third time pay’s for all”

Bilbo –

From chapter XII, Inside Information:

‘Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!’

– Bilbo

From chapter IX, Barrels out of Bond:

you cannot count friends that are all packed up in barrels

From chapter XVII , The Return Journey

‘May your beards never grow thin!’

Bilbo

From chapter XVII, The Return Journey:

‘If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.’

Thorin

From chapter VII, Queer Lodgings, the polite thing to say among eagles:

‘Farewell! Wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end!’

and the proper response:

‘May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks’

Gandolf

From chapter I, An Unexpected Party. Act as if:

If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar he is, or will be when the time comes.

Gandolf